Episode 570: Arsenic & Old Lace (1944)

The Projection Booth

Tv & Film, Film Interviews, Film Reviews, Film History

4.6 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2022

⏱️ 166 minutes

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Summary

We’re wrapping up Screwball month with a look at Frank Capra’s Arsenic and Old Lace. Released in 1944, though shot several years before that, the film stars Cary Grant as Mortimer Brewster, a drama critic and avowed bachelor who has found the love of his life in Elaine Harper (Priscilla Lane) who lives right next door to his kind-hearted aunts, Abby and Martha. There’s just one thing…. Abby and Martha have a terrible habit of poisoning their single, lonely old men boarders.

Sylvia Hubbard and Kat Ellinger join Mike to discuss the film while special guest Joseph McBride (Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success) talks about Frank Capra while Charles Dennis reveals just a few of the things he's uncovered for his upcoming book There's a Body in the Window Seat!: The History of Arsenic and Old Lace.

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0:23.0	Not in the mood for miserable weather?
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0:28.6	Sun Express, non-stop sunshine.
0:36.2	Hold your ears, folks.
0:38.3	It's showtime. People pay good money to see this movie.
0:40.3	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:47.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:49.3	Turn it off.
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1:50.0	Turn it off. The Shh. Oh, Charge! Charge! Charge!
1:52.0	The lockhouse! No, I can't, I won't. I can't go through with it. I won't marry you and that's that.
2:18.3	Look, don't you see, marriage, it's a, it's a superstition. It's old-fashioned. It's, it's, I, I, uh, oh.
2:29.3	Now, Mr. Brewster!
2:37.0	Now look, don't you... Goodbye, dear. Come by the air. Come by there. But there's a body in the window seat.
2:53.6	Yes, dear, we are there in the window seat.
3:09.8	Yes, dear.
3:11.3	We know who.
3:14.1	Oh. The Welcome to the projection booth. I'm your host, Mike White. Join me once again is Ms. Kat
4:02.2	Ellinger. Hello. Also, joining us in the booth is Ms. Sylvia Hubbard.
4:07.9	Hello.
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